Adriano Angelucci currently holds a non-faculty position (Cultore della materia) at the Department of Pure and Applied Sciences (DiSPeA) of the University of Urbino, where he has been teaching courses in epistemology and philosophical methodology over the last few years. Although he works mainly in epistemology and metaphilosophy, his research interests include cognitive science and behavioural economics. He is the author of the book Che cos’è un esperimento mentale (Carocci 2018). He edited with Margherita Arcangeli a special issue of the journal Topoi titled New Perspectives on Philosophical Thought Experiments (Topoi Volume 38, No. 4). Starting in 2017, he is one of the organizers of the Urbino Summer School of Epistemology with Vincenzo Fano (University di Urbino), Mario Alai (University di Urbino) e Daniele Sgaravatti (University of Bologna).

Stefano Calboli is currently a PhD student at the CEPS (University of Minho). His research is funded by the FCT (reference UID/04952/2020) and focuses on how the cognitive biases and nudges typically discussed within behavioral economics, shape moral choices. His research interests lie in nudge theory, moral psychology, evidence-based policymaking, and, more recently, social robotics. Prior to starting his research at the CEPS, he obtained a PhD in Basic Science and Applications at the Department of Pure and Applied Sciences of the University of Urbino Carlo Bo, with a thesis whereby he approaches the topic of whistleblowing through the lens of cognitive sciences and nudge theory. Afterwards, he has been a teaching assistant (cultore della materia) for the subject “Philosophy of mind” at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo and held the position of postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Pure and Applied Sciences of the same university. As a postdoctoral researcher, he worked within the field of social robotics, on a research project titled “Dehumanizations and Self-Dehumanizations Lurk. The Moral Consequences of Interactions with Uncanny Robots”. Throughout his research activities, he has been a visiting scholar and guest lecturer at the University of Denver and the University of Macau.

Andrea Esposito is a Ph.D. student at the University of Urbino. His main scientific interests lie in formal logic, automated theorem proving, and theoretical computer science with a particular focus on higher-order logic programming languages and automated reasoning. His Ph.D. project concerns the application of automated theorem proving techniques in the field of noninterference and reversible computing. Besides these topics, he is also interested in formal methods in general, philosophy and history of logic, proof theory, and lambda calculus. 

I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Urbino (Research Methods in Science and Technology program), and my supervisor is Prof. Mario Alai. I obtained my M.A. from the University of Bologna, where I worked with Prof. Eva Picardi and Prof. Giorgio Volpe on theories of truth and especially alethic pluralism, alternative positions to deflationism, and connections to the realist-antirealist debate. Now, my research interests are connected to scientific realism, scientific understanding, and the epistemology of big data. I am working on the varieties of scientific understanding, in order to develop an account of scientific understanding compatible with realist tenets, concerning the contexts of the research methodologies involved in data-centric sciences. Since the notion of representation draws my philosophical attention, also within the public discourse, I am working on the disinformation patterns recurring in the discussion regarding Covid-19 themes. Scientific communication and sciences' role in policymaking processes are topics that I, also as a local administrator, do not overlook.

Giovanni Macchia is a Post-doc at the University of Urbino, Department of Pure and Applied Sciences, and teaches Methods of Scientific Knowledge at the University of Bologna, Department of Philosophy. He was Visiting Scholar at the Universities of Pittsburgh, Rutgers and Western Ontario, and post-doc in this last university. He also taught science, mathematics, and physics in middle and high schools. His main research fields are foundations of physics, history and philosophy of modern cosmology. Other interests include time travels, metaphysics of time, philosophy of science. He has published various essays on books and papers on, among others, Axiomathes, Foundations of Science, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Synthese.  

Davide Pietrini is currently a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Urbino and secretary of the Interdepartmental Research Centre Urbino e la Prospettiva. He obtained a PhD in Basic Sciences and Application at University of Urbino with a thesis on the mathematical humanism in the Late Renaissance in Urbino. He was Visiting Predoctoral Fellow at Max Planck Institute for the History of Science of Berlin. His main interests concern the scientific activity of Federico Commandino, Bernardino Baldi, Guidobaldo del Monte, Muzio Oddi and the harbingers of the Scientific Revolution in the mathematical school of Commandino.

My name is Mirko Tagliaferri, and I’m a PostDoc researcher at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo. My main field of work is theoretical computer science, with a focus on computational trust models and formal representations of ignorance. I obtained my bachelor degree at the University of Urbino, and then I completed my education Degree at the University of Glasgow, where I obtained a Masters Degree in Philosophy. I then returned to the University of Urbino, where I completed my Ph.D. in Complexity Sciences. During my education, I developed a strong interest towards the formalization of complex concepts, with an emphasis on concepts which are important for the development of a good society. I have also been the main referent for the University of Urbino in the Erasmus+ project OBEC (One Block for Educational Credentials), during which I helped to develop the idea to use Blockchain technologies to certify competences. Since 2023, I was appointed as the main professor for the Computer Science courses inside the Masters Degree in Philosophy of Information and the Degree in Conservation and Restauration of Cultural Heritage.

Isabella Tassani has a position of professor on contract of History of scientific thought at the Department of Pure and Applied Sciences (DiSPeA) of the University of Urbino (Italy). She graduated  from the University of Bologna, earned a Ph.D from the Universities of Bari, Ferrara, Urbino; a Master from the Universities of Urbino-Bologna-Lecce (ICEPHY); a Postdoctoral position at the University of Urbino. She worked at Urbino University as a Postdoctoral Fellow and obtained scientific abilitation in Logic and Philosophy of science. His main reasearch program concerns topics as history and philosophy of science, foundations of modern physics and of Quantum Mechanics, space and time, interrelations between physical and philosophycal concepts, scientific discovery. She is author of many papers in journals as Teorie & Modelli, Physis, Isonomia, La fisica nella scuola, Giornale di Fisica; editor of many books and conference proceedings on foundations of physics, history of science, scientific discovery. Finally, she is member of the scientific commettee of CIRFIS (Centro Interuniversitario di ricerca in filosofia e fondamenti della fisica) and organized many editions of the International Summer School in Philosophy of Physics, held in Urbino.

Monica Tombolato, Phd in Epistemology and in Education, is a Researcher in Didactics at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo, where she teaches Didactics of Symbolic Languages, Pedagogy of Knowledge and Didactics of Knowledge. She specialises in epistemological issues related to the process of didactic transposition from scholarly knowledge to knowledge to be taught. Her research interests include the promotion of epistemic cognition through disciplinary teaching, the role of history and philosophy of science in science education, the epistemological foundations for an integrated school curriculum and the development of critical thinking and decision-making skills in pre-service and in-service teachers.

Gandolfo Vergottini is currently a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Urbino. He completed his Master's degree in Philosophy and Theories of Communication at the University of Cagliari and obtained his PhD in Philosophy, Epistemology, Human Sciences, specializing in Logic and Epistemology, also from the University of Cagliari. His dissertation, Sharp and Unsharp Structures. A Unifying Framework for Algebraic Logic, reflects his primary focus on algebraic logic, exploring the relationships between classical logic and some of its possible generalizations, with a particular emphasis on 3-valued logics and quantum logics. Beyond algebraic logic, his research interests further extend to universal algebra, order theory, category theory, and model theory.